Starting from Winter 14, Now we have one more option in Page Layout Editor, which is “Report Charts”. Instead of Visiting Dashboard and Report we can see chart right in Detail page of record.

Charts in Detail Page

Considerations:

You can have two report charts only per page.

Report chart can only be added from enhanced page layout and is not supported in mini Console or original page layout editor.

2. Get Report Data as JSON – Analytics API
This is REST based API which will return data of report as JSON. This will revolutionize the way we access and visualize Salesforce data.

3. Search Metadata
One of my favorite features is searching Metadata. We have Global search which will search any record. But what if you have more than 200 Workflow rules, Email templates and struggling to find out what you need? You must be thinking for search feature which can search your setup, and this feature is available from Winter 14.

8. Freeze User Accounts
We can now temporarily suspend a user account that requires more work to deactivate.

9. Sharing rule on User

You might be thinking that what Is use of having OWD and sharing rule on User ? As chatter is getting adapted by everyone, there may be scenario that few profiles should be private like of CEO. So in those case we can create sharing rule on User records.

10. Manager Group
When it comes to sharing we know OWD, Role and Sharing rule. Now start assuming one more level which is “Manager Group”. The role hierarchy controls the level of visibility that users have into your organizations data. With Winter’14, you can use manager groups to share records with your management chain, instead of all managers in the same role based on the role hierarchy.

Master Group in Salesforce – Winter 14

11. Flexible API Limits – Pilot

Flexible limits allow your organization to exceed its API request limit up to 50 percent above your normal limits within the limit timeframe (typically 24 hours). For example, if your daily limit for API requests is 100,000, it’s extended to 150,000. The following day, if your organization activity spikes again, the limit will be extended to 150,000 requests again.

12. Server Side View State – Pilot

Server-side view state maintains a Visualforce page’s view state on the server, instead of sending it back and forth during form submissions and responses. This can reduce the amount of data being transmitted per request, which can improve performance, especially over connections with limited bandwidth or high latency, such as a mobile wireless connection.

13. Statement Limit Elimination from Apex

The code statement limit has been removed. Apex transactions are no longer limited by the number of code statements they can execute, allowing you to potentially execute more code statements than the previously enforced statement limit. To protect against infinite processes overusing shared CPU resources, the maximum CPU time for a transaction is 10,000 milliseconds for synchronous Apex, and 60,000 milliseconds for asynchronous Apex (Batch Apex and future methods).

Am getting the following error while querying for KAV after the winter update of the sandbox “Implementation restriction: When querying the KnowledgeArticleVersion object, you must filter using the following syntax: Id = [single ID], Id IN [list of ID’s] or Language = [language ISO code]. In addition Language is only permitted in a top-level AND conditions”